At 17:39 -0800 2003-12-05, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
Peter,
For those situations in which unmarked-case glottal has been used, I think it would cause the least confusion to leave 0294 as a cap-height glyph, and call it upper case.
I don't have time to argue this out today, but it is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
Oh, by the way, did I say it was wrong?
I'll try to argue the case in detail Monday.
Take into consideration the innovation: a short glottal has been added because people wanted to case it like other letters. They might have made another typographic choice: they might have innovated a wide capital to distinguish it from the "lowercase tall" letter. But they didn't.
Height is a (the?) recognized distinction between upper and lower case. Width isn't. So a "wide capital" wouldn't be the most intuitive choice.
What Ken says makes sense: lowercase is dominant, by far. Something that's caseless (in a script that otherwise has case) which suddenly acquires case has to be considered lowercase, since that's how it was used all along.
It would be nice to see texts and to have a local expert's view.
Yeah, but then we couldn't have the fun of arguing and making up stuff. :)
~mark
